The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-02

| Ply are you dolnYt
"Doin'?'' said his wife, why, spin
MIN. Of course. / must get out 40
yards OF full cloth for YOU and the
boys, and 20 yards of pressed flannel
for me and the gals"
Blewitt looked down at his legs and
saw them encased in full cloth of
coarse texture, and the seat of his
trcuse. S he felt reached clear up to
his shoulder blades, and the legs were
as wide as two bushel sacks.
"Well, TlIbedarned," was all he said.
Dreamily he sauntered out again to
the wheat field and John hailed him:
"Father, if you amt goin' to help
cut the wheat, suppose you yoke the
oxen and 60 up to the woods and
draw a draft or two of logs fer wood"
Blewitt was composed. but he said:
81 had intended to burn coal in the
sitting-room and parlor, and not cut
much wood"
Coal, Coain' said John anerily;;
now see here. father; | don't want
any more of this foolish talk. Pm
goin' to git adoctor."
Blewitt began to think he needed
one himself. Here his boys had never
heard of a reaper or a threshing ma
chine or cars. He felt OF his full cloth
pants and groaned. On the lounge
| at the house he laid himself down and
tried to calmly think things over.
When the doctor came he called for n
pail and barred Blewitt's arm, took
out his lance, and then Blewitt groan.
ed again.
II must take a gallon OF blood"
said the doctor, "and then he will
calm down and be all right"
Don't You know bleodin' vas play
ed out 80 years ago?'' said Blewitt.
"How he wanders," said the doctor.
and plunged in his lancet. Blewitt
tainted. When he came to himself be
heard one OF the girls talking about
an artist down to the village who took
profile pictures with O. spindle as nat.
uraI as life.
"What do you want of such blamed
pictures as that" said Blewitt from
the LOUNGE; "why don't you godown to
Tak'ems at Albany andgit so me pho
tographs?"
photographs" said the whole fam
lily; what funny names he gets off in
his crazy fancy"
Blewitt was too weak to argue, and
he seemed to be somehow out Of SYM
pathy or knowlege with all mankind;
so he just lay still and watched the
girls get supper. He noticed that the
freboard was down and a fire
was built in the Fireplace. A
kettle was on the hearth and
was covered with live Goals. Soon he
saw the girls take out OF the kettle
some nice biscuits and he weakly SAID:
"Wby don't you use the cook stove?"
poor pa" said Angelina, chow he
wanders. Cook Stove! Wonder what
he means?"
Blewitt closed his eyes and thought.
| Bayley his neighbor, was a man he
could trust; that is in anything but
money matters. He knew Bayley was
badly in debt, but he was a good fell
low. He could send for him; so he
called his wife and told her to send
over for him.
why, you know" said Mrs, Blew
lit, "Bayley has been In jail for debt
for the last 10 years"
Observation-Disclosures" said Blewitt;
''here we are again. / have been trans
pldhiCo. 4 give uP,DIO odys HUlO 10
two cents, you send a letter down to
brother John, and he will be up here
in a day or two.
"Why. husband, the mail only goes
once a week, and then he will be three
days coming up on the stage, and
furthermore, it will cost you a shilling,
IL cents, to send a letter to Albany"
Say said Blewitt, lust bury me.
will youa don't belong in tA.is CEN
fury. Stage coaches, 10 cen post
agey Telegraph him theLp'
There goes another new word,n
said his wife in a solemn voice, and
she wetted d cloth and laid it on his
forehead, as she repeated to herself"
Telegraph; what a funny wordp'
Bfewitt was IN despair. Could it be
that ell the common things OF life
were to him a dream? Had he ever
ridden on the cars2 Did he ever own
a moving machine? Was there ever
a telegraph pole in front of his house,?
He turned his eyes and looked out. He
only saw the tall post and long pole
OF the well-sweep. Along the other
side OF the road ran Il dense forest.
He WAS willing to swear that he had
once owned a nice meadow where that
wood was. Backed up against the log
fence was an ox-cart with a heap as
large rs a young liberty pole. Down
cellar he could hear the banging Of an
old-fashioned churn. He looked up
the road TO the east and sawt the road
was full OF great hemlock and pine
stumps, and over it the doctor was
coming on horseback with saddle.
bags before him.
BlewItt was a man of determine
ton, and he arose from the lounge
and went to the door to consult with
his wife.
MARIA" said he, .'there has been
enough OF this toolishness. Youstare
at everything ! talk about, and !
can't locate myself, Or seem to fay IN
with my surroundings. Now. will you
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